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viscosurgical

viscosurgical adjective: describing any viscoelastic material used in eye surgery.

Adjective

viscosurgical (not comparable)

  1. Describing any viscoelastic material used in eye surgery.
    • Viscosurgical tools are applied during the surgical procedure and can act as space-makers to separate tissues and create the space for surgical manipulations and for the insertion of implants.1989, David Evered, The Biology of hyaluronan, page 266
    • The experienced surgeon did cataract surgery performing the divide and conquer nucleofractis technique and using discovisc (Alcon Laboratories, Inc, Fort Worth, Tex, US) as ophthalmic viscosurgical device [22 ].2016 January 14, “A Pilot Study to Propose a”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of viscosurgical

From visco- + surgical.

Questions about viscosurgical

What does viscosurgical mean?
Viscosurgical means describing any viscoelastic material used in eye surgery.
What part of speech is viscosurgical?
Viscosurgical is an adjective.

Words near viscosurgical in the dictionary

  1. viscosity printing
  2. viscosupplement
  3. viscosupplementation
  4. viscosupplementations
  5. viscosupplements
  6. viscosurgical
  7. viscotaxis
  8. viscotoxin
  9. viscotoxins
  10. viscount
  11. viscountal

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